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From the fields of science to sociology, politics and philosophy, here is what Stanford research says about love and romance, in the past and present day.

Harry Elam will remain at Stanford through the end of the academic year.

Now students and teachers can create inexpensive automated systems to drop precise amounts of fluids into experimental containers.

When teachers think empathically, and not punitively, about misbehaving students, they cultivate better relationships and help reduce discipline problems, Stanford research shows.

Stanford School of Engineering faculty members Stacey Bent, Kenneth Goodson and Fei-Fei Li have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, among the highest professional distinctions accorded engineers.

In 2018–19, gifts to Stanford provided $1.1 billion for financial aid, research, patient care and other university priorities.

Obtaining documented status leaves some migrants more fearful of deportation, finds Stanford sociologist Asad L. Asad in an in-depth study of Latin American immigrants living in Dallas, Texas.

Stanford psychologist Steven O. Roberts found that the characteristics U.S. Christians assign to God – e.g., male, female, black, white, old, young – are the same identities they attribute to a boss.

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has presented its 2020 John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science to Stanford chemistry professor CAROLYN BERTOZZI for her invention of bioorthogonal chemistry. “Bioorthogonal chemistry” is the name...

Rice will assume the post as head of the 100-year-old public policy research center on Sept. 1.

An effort to thwart viral diseases like hepatitis or the common cold led to a new collaboration and a novel class of cancer drugs that appears effective in mice.

Deborah Kass’ bold sculpture welcomes guests from its new home at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center.

Stanford psychologist Michael Frank and other researchers used a novel statistical approach to analyze children’s early speech and found evidence that toddlers develop knowledge of grammar with time and practice.